Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1165
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Jeremy Sisto represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 31 years in, and Jeremy is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Jeremy Sisto appears in 18 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Jeremy. In the Footsteps of Elephant is the clearest case: a film rated 8.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for documentary, mystery, fantasy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Vanessa Berlowitz, Chris Buck, Carlos Saldanha and others, Jeremy Sisto helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
In the Footsteps of Elephant (2020) as Narrator (voice) · Clueless (1995) as Elton · Frozen II (2019) as King Runeard (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #1165 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
18
1995–2026
Career length
31 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.0
In the Footsteps of Elephant
Average Nutevio score
6.4
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
In the Footsteps of Elephant
Most frequent director
Vanessa Berlowitz
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Vanessa Berlowitz
Most common genre
Drama
9 titles
Average runtime
1h 31m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.5
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2010s
7.1 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Frozen II, Ferdinand, Batman vs. Robin — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
7.1
Across 4 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
7.1
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Playing by Heart, Suicide Kings, Clueless.
Most productive era
2020s
6 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.62 films | 6.43 films | — | 6.24 films |
| Action | 6.61 film | 6.81 film | 7.21 film | — |
| Thriller | 6.61 film | 6.41 film | — | 6.01 film |
| Comedy | 6.83 films | 6.82 films | 7.13 films | — |
| Crime | 6.61 film | — | 7.12 films | — |
| Romance | 6.92 films | 6.82 films | — | — |
| Horror | — | 6.41 film | — | 6.01 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1995Clueless
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Elton.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2020In the Footsteps of Elephant
8.0 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026The Resurrection of Christ
The current state of the argument.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
18 of 18 films
as Narrator (voice)
Directed by Vanessa Berlowitz
as Talon (voice)
Directed by Jay Oliva
as Elton
Directed by Amy Heckerling
as King Runeard (voice)
Directed by Chris Buck
as Ferdinand's Father (voice)
Directed by Carlos Saldanha
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Narrator (voice)
In the Footsteps of Elephant (2020)
Performance score8.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Narrator (voice) gives Jeremy Sisto a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Talon (voice)
Batman vs. Robin (2015)
Performance score7.3
Batman vs. Robin asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Talon (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Elton
Clueless (1995)
Performance score7.2
Clueless asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Elton is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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King Runeard (voice)
Frozen II (2019)
Performance score7.1
Frozen II asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. King Runeard (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Narrator (voice)
Start here. In the Footsteps of Elephant is the clearest statement of what Jeremy Sisto does — accessible, 88 minutes, and rated 8.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Jeremy at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Clueless (1995)
A deliberate change of key after In the Footsteps of Elephant — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Batman vs. Robin (2015)
A deliberate change of key after Clueless — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Ferdinand (2017)
Keeps the adventure register of Batman vs. Robin but asks for a colder reading of it.
Frozen II (2019)
Keeps the comedy register of Ferdinand but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Amy Heckerling
Director
1 film together
Notably Clueless
Peter O'Fallon
Director
1 film together
Notably Suicide Kings
Rob Schmidt
Director
1 film together
Notably Wrong Turn
Asia Argento
Director
1 film together
Notably The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
Nigel Cole
Director
1 film together
Notably A Lot Like Love
Adrienne Shelly
Director
1 film together
Notably Waitress
Dave Bullock
Director
1 film together
Notably Justice League: The New Frontier
Jake Schreier
Director
1 film together
Notably Robot & Frank
Jay Oliva
Director
1 film together
Notably Batman vs. Robin
Carlos Saldanha
Director
1 film together
Notably Ferdinand
Chris Buck
Director
1 film together
Notably Frozen II
Vanessa Berlowitz
Director
1 film together
Notably In the Footsteps of Elephant
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Vanessa Berlowitz
Director
1 film together · 8.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
In the Footsteps of ElephantAmy Heckerling
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
CluelessChris Buck
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Frozen IICarlos Saldanha
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
FerdinandJay Oliva
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Batman vs. RobinJake Schreier
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Robot & FrankDave Bullock
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Justice League: The New FrontierNigel Cole
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
A Lot Like LoveAdrienne Shelly
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
WaitressPeter O'Fallon
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Suicide KingsRob Schmidt
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Wrong TurnAsia Argento
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All ThingsSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
In the Footsteps of Elephant
as Narrator (voice)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
A Lot Like Love
as Ben Miller
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
In the Footsteps of Elephant
as Narrator (voice)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Playing by Heart
as Malcolm (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
In the Footsteps of Elephant
as Narrator (voice)
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Jeremy Sisto has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
31 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Drama Legend
Awarded
9 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
In the Footsteps of Elephant
as Narrator (voice)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Batman vs. Robin
as Talon (voice)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
A Lot Like Love
as Ben Miller
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Captain Tsunami
as Captain Tsunami
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Batman vs. Robin
as Talon (voice)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Batman vs. Robin
as Talon (voice)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Frozen II
as King Runeard (voice)
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Clueless
as Elton
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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